[Digikam-devel] Ideas for improved slideshow

[Heiner Lamprecht]

Hi everybody,

first of all, I wish you all a happy and successful new year.

During the last days, I was thinking about how to improve the 
slideshow-plugin.

I organize my images with one album per event, and within one album, 
they are sorted by their timestamp.  But when I prepare a 
slideshow, I sometimes use images from more than one album, and 
normally I don't use them chronological.

At the moment, I have to copy all images I want to use into a new 
folder and rename them e.g. "img_0010.jpg, img_0020.jpg, ..."  The 
steps of 10 are used by purpose:  Now it's easier to change the 
order, because I only have to change the number of the very image I 
want to move.

I think, it would be very nice to be able to change the order simply 
by drag 'n drop, but without renaming images.  So a slideshow for 
me is more like a list of links to images, which are stored in 
different albums.  Of course it would be a good idea to be able to 
export such a slideshow, including resizing the images.  (BTW:  For 
me, this workflow is quite similar to preparing a gallery for the 
web.)

When presenting a slideshow, I would like to be able to have more 
control over the presentation.  That means, I would prefere to jump 
to the next image by hitting a key or a mouse key instead of having 
a predefined time the images is displayed.


What do you think about?


    Heiner

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